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-There.

The sealing of the Six Tails is at last completed.

Phew.

It certainly takes longer with just five of us.

-Now that it's done, there are only two tailed beasts

remaining.

-Yes.

I've sent Sasuke and his team to go and retrieve

the Eight Tails.

-But can he be trusted?

-I can vouch for Sasuke myself.

-I know that you're out here all by yourself.

So why aren't you running?

-Whatever.

I can be any number from 1 to 1,000.

Besides, why would I want to run?

If I capture you right now, then I'll get to see Sasuke again.

-Why are you so obsessed with my brother?

He's just a rogue ninja.

It's true that we may not be blood,

but he's more of a brother to me than you ever were to him.

ITACHI: You're already under my genjutsu.

I'll say it again.

I just want to talk.

I know that you've been trying to take Sasuke back

to the Hidden Leaf Village.

However, what if it doesn't go the way you want it to?

-I'll do anything to make it happen.

-Even taking him by force?

Sure, if you're lucky, Sasuke will just obediently

return with you to the village.

But tell me, what if the opposite were to happen?

-What are you talking about?

-You just said you consider Sasuke to be like a brother

to you.

What if Sasuke were to attack the Hidden Leaf Village?

What would you do then?

-Why would-- no, there's just no way

that Sasuke would ever do something like that.

-Sasuke is still a blank canvas.

He can easily be dyed into any color.

If he resists, would you be able to stop him?

Or even kill him, if need be?

Could you weigh Sasuke against the Hidden Leaf

on a set of scales?

-I would defend the village, and I'd

find a way to stop Sasuke without killing him!

-You're such a child.

All your tales are nothing but mere fantasies.

Shinobi must be capable of making very harsh decisions.

-The first thing is for you to give up on Sasuke.

What happened was always destined to happen, Naruto.

Dismiss him from your mind, and move on.

To be a shinobi, you need more strength and jutsu.

You must acquire the judgement to make the right decisions.

You must become smarter.

So the longer that you remain a fool,

the harder it is for you to live in this world.

-Fine, then.

If being smarter means what you say it does,

I'll remain a fool my entire life.

I'm going after him, and I'll do it alone, if I have to.

I'll create my own incredible jutsu.

Someone else once tried to tell me the same thing.

But for me, there is no choice.

I gave my word, and I'll never back down.

That will always be my ninja way.

ITACHI: I have shared some of my power with you.

Though I hope the day when you will have to use

it never comes.

-What is this?

What's going on here?

I thought you said that you weren't after me.

Then why are you doing this?

-I'm going now.

I have an important matter to attend to.

-What did Itachi mean by all of that?

Why did he--

-Sasuke triumphed in the battle.

Itachi Uchiha is now dead.

Sasuke is down right now, too.

So what's next?

I think he's in pretty bad shape.

NARUTO (VOICEOVER): What are you doing now, Sasuke?

I hope you're OK.

-Are you all right, Sasuke?

-Yeah.

Let's hurry.

We're almost at the rendezvous point.

As promised, I've delivered the Eight Tails to you.

-Excellent work.

I knew you could do it.

Where are you going?

-First to tend to my wounds.

Then to the Hidden Leaf.

-Sasuke, I need to ask you something important.

After learning the truth about Itachi's life,

there is a chance that you will carry out his wishes

and protect the Hidden Leaf.

So tell me the truth.

What are your intentions?

-Itachi's life shows how he sacrificed

himself to protect the village.

But my grief at losing him is deeper than any desire

to follow his path.

Inconsolably so.

The peace that Itachi sacrificed himself for

doesn't appeal to me.

Now that I know the truth, following in Itachi's footsteps

to protect the Hidden Leaf is the last thing I would do.

Most of all, I will never forgive the three elders

of the Leaf Village.

I believe everyone in the Leaf who's

enjoying the peace paid for with Itachi's life is guilty, too.

-I thought you were only going to kill the elders?

-No.

What I want is to slaughter the entire Leaf Village.

But only by myself.

I was just lying in front of the Taka.

-Are you sure about that?

You can truly ignore Itachi's will, his sacrifice,

as well as all of those he strove to protect?

Are you really serious?

-Look, you told me so yourself.

The reason why Itachi couldn't bring himself to kill me

was because my life was more precious to him

than the village itself was.

I have similar feelings that Itachi's life

is more precious than the Hidden Leaf.

That's all.

They shunned the Uchiha clan.

They ordered my brother to kill own parents.

It wasn't just the elders who chased Itachi to his death,

but all those in the Hidden Leaf who abide by the Senju.

To me they are the scum of the earth!

They are all objects of my vengeance!

If you want to ridicule me as a brat swayed by his emotions,

go ahead.

To accept and adopt Itachi's intention would be childish.

The foolish sputtering of those who don't know hatred.

If anyone who criticizes my way of life were to come forward,

I'd turn around and kill every single one of their loved ones,

so that they too could grasp what

it's like to experience this hatred of mine.

MADARA: When a man learns to feel love,

he must also bear the risk of feeling hate.

-What?

What do you mean, Killer B's been taken?

-Among the assailants is someone from the Hidden Leaf.

An Uchiha.

My partner is tailing them right now.

-Lord Raikage, what are your orders for us?

-The Akatsuki.

They won't get away with this!

Just you wait, little brother.

This isn't done.

[theme music]

[knocking]

-Huh?

Oh.

It's you.

Hey, Kakashi-sensei.

-Lady Fifth has summoned you.

Let's go.

-Chief Toad and Gamakichi?

What gives?

-Yo.

What's up, Naruto?

-What are you guys doing here?

What's going on?

Did something happen?

-Well, actually, uh--

-Gamakichi, keep your trap shut.

Let the boss and Tsunade handle it.

They know what they're doing.

-That's weird.

What's going on here?

-Don't worry.

Let's go.

-Hm?

-So this is Jiraya boy's student, is it?

-Yes.

This is Naruto Uzumaki.

The child of prophecy you spoke of.

-What's with the old geezer frog?

Who's he?

-Pipe down.

Watch your mouth, Naruto.

He is one of the two great sages of Mt.

Myoboku, Lord Fukasaku.

He traveled all the way here just so

that he could speak with you.

-Well, to be more accurate, I'm a Great Sage Toad,

but never mind that.

It doesn't matter.

Answer me this.

Are you really Jiraiya boy's student, or aren't you?

-Jiraiya boy?

A boy?

Don't treat the pervy sage like a kid.

Who does this geezer frog think he is, anyway?

-I told you already, watch your mouth!

-Naruto, he's the one who taught the Sage Jutsu to Lord Jiraiya.

He's Jiraiya's master.

-Huh?

[laughter]

-So you call him the Pervy Sage?

I've never heard a more fitting name for Jiraiya boy.

-What does this geezer sage want?

What did he come so far to talk to me about?

-I'm not exactly sure where to begin this.

But let me see.

I suppose the most important thing

is I'm afraid Jiraiya boy has died in battle.

-Huh?

What are you talking about?

-I know that this is very sudden,

so I understand if you don't believe me.

For some time now, rumors had been circulating

that the leader of the Akatsuki was operating out

of the Village Hidden in the Rain,

so Jiraiya boy went there in person to verify

whether these rumors were true.

-The leader of the Akatsuki was in the Hidden Rain Village?

-As I recall, that village is difficult to infiltrate.

It's entirely closed off from the outside world.

-Yes.

But Master Jiraiya was exceptionally skilled

in infiltration and espionage tactics.

-Yes.

Exactly.

-This is what I've thought through on my own,

and that is that, Jiraiya-sensei.

FUKASAKU: Jiraiya boy encountered Pain,

the leader of the Akatsuki.

However--

-We'll, your appearance has changed quite a bit.

But those eyes-- so I guess you're

the ones who became Pain, Nagato.

It appears you've strayed from the path of goodness.

What happened to you?

-You don't need to know.

After all, you are an outsider.

-Pain was a former student of Jiraiya boy's

from many, many years ago.

-He was his student?

What do you mean by that?

-I don't know the particulars, but Jiraiya boy

called him Nagato.

-That goes way back to a time during the chaos

of the Third Great Ninja War.

The Hidden Rani Village had become a battlefield,

and Jiraiya took some war orphans under his wing.

Who would have imagined those kids--

-But to defeat a shinobi as powerful

as Jiraiya-- how did this Pain accomplish such a feat?

-It was because Pain possesses the Rinnegan.

-What did you say?

-Rinnegan?

-It's an ocular jutsu said to have been possessed

by the father of all shinobi, the Sage of the Six Paths.

But I believed that it was nothing more than a legend.

-The fabled occular jutsu, the Rinnegan.

Its power was supposedly beyond anything you could imagine.

But there's more.

-There were six of them with the Rinnegan?

How can that even be possible?

-I don't know.

Perhaps there's some trick behind it.

I believe that Jiraiya boy discovered the secret

behind the six of them in that final terrible battle.

But--

-Jiraiya boy!

-Even after he had his throat crushed by Pain,

and he knew the end was near, Jiraiya boy

left a message before collapsing.

This is his message.

-It's a code.

-I'm sure he did this to prevent Pain from catching on.

And that's everything I know about Jiraiya boy's efforts.

-I wonder what he was trying to tell us?

Maybe we can decode this.

Then, hopefully, we'll understand.

-You let him go.

Is that right, granny?

-That's right.

Why would you ever let him do something so risky?

You knew Pervy Sage better than anyone, granny!

How could you send him somewhere so dangerous alone?

-Stop it, Naruto.

You of all people ought to know Lady Tsunade's feelings.

-It's too dangerous.

-I'm one of the Leaf's legendary Sannin.

You know what that means just as well as I do.

You were so beautiful back then.

And now, you're a 50-something granny.

But it does pain me to see how you

hold all the memories of your lost friends

and loved ones inside that ample bosom of yours.

As you know, number will only continue to rise.

Well then, we'll simply have to keep our emotions in check.

The job that we must give to ourselves

now is to set examples, and to aid

the next generation, Tsunade.

And to achieve that, I'd gladly risk my life.

Wisdom is the one thing that makes growling old worth it.

-Dammit.

-Naruto, wait.

Where are you going?

-If the Pervy Sage had been the Fifth Hokage,

he wouldn't have let granny Tsunade take a risk like that.

Never.

-Naruto!

-Don't Sakura.

-Enough.

Just let him be for now.

-But milady--

-My apologies, Lord Fukasaku.

I'll arrange for Naruto to--

-No need.

That's quite all right.

But about that child of prophecy vision

I mentioned earlier-- I can see that this child truly

loved and admired Jiraiya boy.

It makes me hope more than anything

that he is the child of prophecy.

-First I'm going to show you how it's done.

Now, watch me carefully.

[scream]

NARUTO (VOICEOVER): This is it.

Summoning Jutsu!

What?

No way!

I mean, come on!

Why do I have to tag along with you

while you do research for another one

of your pervy books?

-Look, kid.

This isn't just another research trip.

See, there's this woman I have to find.

A very remarkable woman.

-Come on, come on, come on!

Why'd ya choose me, huh?

-Well, the truth is, kid, a long time ago,

the Fourth Hokage used to be a disciple of mine,

and you bear such a striking resemblance to the Fourth

that it's almost laughable.

Not a minute will be wasted.

-Huh?

-All of our time on the road will

be devoted solely to you, Naruto.

-But how come?

-We've got to get you stronger.

Time to train!

[theme music]

[theme music]

NARRATOR: The boy wanders the village,

lost in despair, immersed in anguish,

reminiscing about his late master.

The end of his childhood approaches quickly.

When at last he lets go of all of his grief,

the boy will raise himself up once again.

Next time on Naruto Shippuden, Following the Master's Shadow.

-After all, we can't stay brats forever.